# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerard-chaliand
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:59:33.439Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/gerard-chaliand"
name: "Gérard Chaliand"
slug: "gerard-chaliand"
description: "Gérard Chaliand was a Belgian-born French expert in geopolitics who published widely on irregular warfare and military strategy. Chaliand's analyses of insurgencies in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, mostly based on his field experience with insurgent forces, have appeared in more than 20 books and in numerous newspaper articles."
tagline: "French political scientist and historian (1934–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/G%C3%A9rard_Chaliand_202010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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birthDate: "1934-02-15"
deathDate: "2025-08-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump